Re: Enhancement - show old and new thread info when switching during debugging

Joel Brobecker
2011-07-30T02:44:26Z

> Joel> Isn't that information already present in the previous "[Switching to
> Joel> thread ...]" message?
>
> We can always add an option, like "set print thread previous on" to
> control the output.

Generally speaking, I prefer to avoid introducing options unless
really necessary. In this particular case, it sounds like the most
convenient way of solving the problem is to have a convenience
variable. And it sounds like the only reason why Paul hasn't looked
at the implementation yet is due to lack of familiarity with this
code?

% grep '"bpnum"' *.c
breakpoint.c: set_internalvar_integer (lookup_internalvar ("bpnum"), num);

So, I would think that adding something similar in
thread.c:switch_to_thread would do the job.

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Joel